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America needs her citizens to remember who they are, and to remember what we stand for. This country was built, grown, and maintained, with the hopes, sweat and blood of every day men and women who refused to live in fear, under tyranny, and without hope. Men of means, on pain of death, came together to declare "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." These men fought, risked all they possessed, up to and including their lives, to establish a country where the government derived its power from the people, and the people themselves were sovereign. Most of the world thought that the fledgling country was doomed to failure. 200 years later, we have the longest running form of government on the planet. We have the strongest economy on the planet. We have the strongest military on the planet. And we are, despite what the media might have you think, the most generous nation in the world.

In the course of our history, we have survived the Franco American war, the Spanish American war, the Mexican war, the Seminole war, The War of 1812, the French and Indian War, our own Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the first Iraq War, and a terrorist attack on our home soil which forced our more direct involvement in the current global war. That's just a few off the top of my head. In the midst of all that, we've suffered droughts, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, mudslides, wildfires, and many other natural disasters. We suffered the stock market crash of 1929 that led to the Great Depression. We suffered the Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s and 90s. We've suffered stock bubbles, housing bubbles, and recessions. In any given year, if you cared to look it up, you'd be able to find some segment of the country in turmoil, some crisis regional or national. You'd think with all of that against us, we'd have failed by now. If you listen to the news these days, you might be tempted to think we're on the brink of failure now. But, through all of that, here we stand, better, stronger, and more prosperous than we were before, and still the best example of a great nation in the world. From each and every blow, we've recovered. In every crisis, calamity, and conundrum, the men and women of this nation see not an obstacle, but a challenge

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